Lion "Work-around" question.

I just can't accept the changes in the file menu of my favorite apps. I want "Save As", and hate this "Versions" nonsense. My Time Machine backups suit me just fine, better than "Versions".
I am able to use iWork as originally intended, by not upgrading those products to to be "more Lion compliant"
However, TextEdit is another matter. That application gets upgraded to "Save a Version" and "Duplicate" completely involuntarily.
Here's my question....
Can I copy, and use TextEdit from my older 2010 MBA with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and just copy over the .app file/container, and use it on my Lion 2011 MBA?
Will there be any negative rammifications in keeping both on my Lion system, and just re-naming the older application to OldTextEdit.app?

Or you can try something that might just blow your mind...
Open the Terminal app (hidden under /Applications/Utilities). Type in nano and hit the return key.
This is a very simple text only editor. You can adjust settings in Terminal such as screen colors, fonts, etc. You can run Terminal full screen if you like. Press CTRL+G to see the online help. Use CTL+X to exit. Now type in "man nano" and you'll have a manual page for the nano application. Type Q to quit the manual. The man command works with all Unix commands (well most of them).
Don't think this is old or obsolete, it's quite the opposite. Using the terminal is kinda like magic. You'll see the suggestion above that OS X wouldn't let you delete TextEdit but doing it in Terminal will. There is this whole world hidden away under the hood of OS X just waiting for people to discover it. It's called UNIX and boy is it powerful. Unix is all about text files. It's also about small programs that do one thing and do it really well then you can tie those programs together by taking the output from one and feeding into a another. It's a lot like batch scripting but on steroids. You can do amazing things in Terminal.
Here's a little fun, make sure your audio is not muted and in Terminal type "say O S X is great!" without the quotes.
Oh, by the way, be extremely careful with the "sudo rm" command that could wipe out your entire operating system. Entering "sudo rm -rf /" would literally mean Super User Do Remove Recursively Forced starting from the root of the disk. That would kill every last file on your hard drive and it won't warn you because of the force option. Actually don't mess with anything using "sudo" Super User Do until you get much more confortable. The sudo command is meant to perform dangerous things and the first time you run sudo you'll get a sort of warning and it will prompt you for an administrator password. Guru Bob gave you the proper command to delete just the TextEdit app.

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This is where it gets INSANE and where I lose all understanding of what is going on, and believe me it was a delicate understanding to begin with. It comes in to play with the work around I figured out. I make the master Event with the 10,000+ clips. Then I import all the XMLs as dedicated Events. Now, I then drag the Multicam clips into the master Event, it WORKS! just takes it, no "Kill Yourself Now" error. Stranger still, now with the switched referenced Event, it even takes into account which aliased duplicate file name it's referencing in the Original Media folder. Somehow, it's taking into account the original file path and saying "Ok, I see 5 instances of MVI_5834.mov. Based on the original file path or maybe creation date or god knows what, it must be MVI_5834 (fcp3).mov." It connects perfectly. I can even remove the old XML imported Event with no problem. Crazier yet, I can now move those again to the dedicated Event I wanted originally that only contains those Multicam or Compound Clips.
So instead of going straight from A to C, going from A to B to C works even though that actually seems way more complicated. Why can't FCPX handle Merge Events and dragging clips the same way it handles media imported into a single Event. And weirder still, why can't FCPX handle the (fcp1,2,3...) appending in the same scenario. But if the appended links are already there, No Problem. And for the love of god, it'd be nice to important XML's into existing Events and make the correct referencing happen right from the get go, which is really the source of all the above headache. I'd have no problem helping FCPX with a little manual pointing in the right direction just like any other NLE needs.
Ok, having said all of that crap above, my question is, have I missed something completely simple I should have done instead? Now that I have everything in place how I originally envisioned, I think I will still play around a little bit more to make sure FCPX is really going to be able to handle this project. I'm at a stage right now where going another direction is still an option, although the dare devil in me wants to make this work. Media management aside, once you start editing on a FCPX timeline, its hard to go back to anything else. Apple is going to have to figure out some way not to access to everything at all times to work fluidly or big projects like this are never going to be practical in FCPX.
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